Ahmed Jabari

Ahmed Jabari (1960-14 November 2012) was the leader of the Qassam Brigades of Hamas, the military wing of Palestine. He was killed in a Shin Bet airstrike in 2012.

Biography
Ahmed Jabari was born in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip in 1960. While at the Islamic University of Gaza, Jabari joined Fatah, a Palestinian military group that advocated armed resistance against Israel to the north. In 1982 he was arrested and sentenced to 13 years in prison. In 1995, upon his release, he joined Hamas, rivals with Fatah, but was arrested again in 1998, after bombing a bus in Kfar Darom, by the Palestinian Authority.

Death
In 2002, Jabari took command of Hamas' military after the wounding of Mohammad Deif. A high-ranking official, he fought in the 2006 Gaza War against Israel. In 2012, he was tracked down by Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency after a series of Palestinian rocket attacks occurred. As part of Operation Pillar of Defense, an MQ-9 Reaper helicopter fired Brimstone missiles at Jabari's car on Omar Mukhtar Street in Gaza City. Jabari and Mohammed Al Hams, his bodyguard, were killed.